Joint Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquiums are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am and are organized by The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall and Princeton University in the Spring. Details on the current colloquiums can be found below. Coffee provided 10:30am to 11:00am before the start of the lecture. The Joint Astrophysics Colloquium is immediately followed by the Bahcall Lunch. 

For questions about a speaker's visit to The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall, please contact Alexander Dittmann, Biwei Dai, or Amanda Cenker.

For questions about a speaker's visit to Princeton University the Spring, please contact:  or Mami Akiyama. 

Videos of past talks at the IAS can be found on the IAS video server or on YouTube.

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Feb
03
2026

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Supercomputer Simulations of the Universe
Volker Springel
11:00am|Jadwin A10, Princeton University

Numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation have become a powerful tool in astrophysics. Starting right after the Big Bang, they predict the dark matter backbone of the cosmic web far into the non-linear regime and follow complex galaxy...

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